Top 10 Cards With Beneficial Costs in Yugioh

[@ivankrylov6270]

Banish costs: "To play me you must permanently remove cards" Gren maju: "Jokes on your I'm into that shit"

[@daniellopez8302]

Banishes all 3 Gren maju

[@ivankrylov6270]

@@daniellopez8302 high risk high reward bonk deck

[@CocTheElf]

Despian Tragedy: So Allure of Darkness is actually a +1?

[@TheWackyWorkbench]

I’m the 69th like, and as a gren maju player I came to say this but liked this instead

[@ladyriethegoldendelmo5441]

also gren maiju? it makes goku power level noises! its over 9000!!

[@KaoruMzk]

Droplet is also a quick play spell so you also can use it defensively to, say, send your Stratos to the GY to dodge Infinite Impermanence.

[@DjPyro2010]

I like droplet the most as a going 2nd card because it's probably the best going 2nd card to use if you go first. It can be a shrink and veiler that opp can't negate as easily.

[@KaoruMzk]

@@DjPyro2010 it is an extremely versatile card. I’ve used it for OTKs, or as additional copies of Impermanence for extra interruptions when I go first. Also, it is great for chain blocking too.

[@itactuallyme4910]

So many commas.

[@KaoruMzk]

@@itactuallyme4910 there you go, fixed it.

[@nacl4988]

Works excelently in Livetwins. Normalsummon Lilla, Effect to summon Kisikil from deck, Chain Droplets to send lilla, resolves -> Kisikil is summoned (Oh look you control no monsters! This means you can use its effect to sumon Lilla from the deck!). Then you can use those to go into SkyCavalria -> Zeus

[@timothyluu9509]

Important fact that was missed about Droplet’s cost is that most cards don’t need to be on field to resolve their effects. As a quick-play, you can use it to dodge targeted negation like veilers and imperms. More importantly, you can send your own cards that would go to the gy anyway like spells or cards that are or will be negated by another card on the field, with the added benefit of turning off said negate if it has a body.

[@Zetact_]

It's weird that Konami says "The card needs to be in the same place its effect activates in order for it to properly resolve, but only sometimes." Like GY effects I get but there is a case like Stratos + Droplet that has a literal exact same scenario of Kagari + Droplet that Konami says, "No it doesn't work there, because we said so."

[@ilyeskammoun4105]

Mmmmm

[@jxgalaxy3810]

@@Zetact_ do u mean that a card needs to be in the place it activates to be able to activate or something else entirely

[@Zetact_]

@@jxgalaxy3810 I mean that Konami isn't always consistent with that ruling. Sometimes cards with the same interaction cause different rulings, case and point they say that Stratos being in a different location is fine and its gets its search but I've heard people say that if Kagari is sent to GY after being summoned then you don't get to add a Spell from your GY to hand even though it should work the same way.

[@jxgalaxy3810]

@@Zetact_ maybe because the cards in your gy have changed is all i can think of as why it wouldnt work, also try it on an automated simulator of some kind to see it thats actually how it works

[@juanpablouriascruz1411]

Number 95 Galaxy eyes Dark matter dragon is probably the only card that is banned entirely because of its cost

[@Mboone1994]

Future Fusion

[@juanpablouriascruz1411]

@@Mboone1994 the pre errata one, yes

[@Andychiu845]

@@juanpablouriascruz1411 miss the days when sending cards to the grave means they are dead 🤣

[@CocTheElf]

@@Andychiu845 Yeah, when Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest were hit because of their floating effects.

[@Andychiu845]

@@CocTheElf 🤣 i still remember the godlike combo turn 1 set mystic tomato, float into witch then tribute it for summon skull beat down

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

I remember making this request a LONG while ago… Glad to see that _finally_ made its way around!

[@paysonfox88]

He really respects those cards on his list. He had to get enough copies to fulfill your request. Because for you, first he lit it on fire, then he talked about it later. Burning that many cards is a bit wasteful, so he had to save up his money for extras

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@paysonfox88 Aha, hahaha, I see what you did there with my name😂

[@Bandit-0073]

RIP Kazuki Takahashi 1961 - 2022 Thanks for creating one of the biggest and most in depth universe's ever. May you rest easy with your deck in the graveyard. Thanks for the memories. In the immortal words of the Pharaoh Atem: "IT'S TIME TO DUEL!!"

[@bensell982]

Magician's Souls. It's cost is literally a specific foolish burial. Plus it's also possible for it's on field cost to be beneficial. Discarding spell and trap cards lets you potentially use powerful graveyard effects. Let's stick strictly to it's own intended Deck for that. Say you special summon it by sending Dark Magician to the graveyard while you have Eternal Soul on the field. You can then discard Soul Servant and Magician Navigation to the graveyard to draw 2 cards then Soul Servant can let you draw 1 more card at least and by reviving Dark Magician, Magician Navigation has a negate activated from graveyard. That's just using cards from it's own archetype.

[@Lawler50431]

In a similar manner, the new (for TCG) Mathmech Circular. Once again, the cost is a specific foolish burial. It's on field effect requires you to summon another Mathmech monster to the field alongside it to search a Mathmech spell or trap... but Mathmech Sigma can revive itself from the GY if you don't have a monster in the Extra Monster Zone, and they have an archetype Monster Reborn in Mathmech Equation making for a nice package for Cyberse decks (Sigma locks you into Cyberse if you use his effect to summon himself). If you don't need Equation and are actually playing a Mathmech deck, you can also grab Superfactorial (aka, what Tri-Brigade Revolt took notes from). If Sigma's already in the GY later in the duel you can send Division or Multiplication instead to activate their effects, halving an opposing monster's ATK for the turn, or doubling the ATK of the monster in your Extra Monster Zone. It's not AS great as Magician's Souls (which makes sense, they saw how nuts they made that one and toned it down a bit this time), but Mathmech Circular's still an amazing addition not only for its archetype, but many Cyberse decks now and in the future.

[@Tomy_Lightning]

Actually I think not discarding soul servant is that good of an idea since it lets you chose the top card of the deck and than draw that card if you have palladium or dark magician monsters on the field or graveyard so soul servant can set a card on top of your deck then draw (assuming you can use the drawing effect) anywhere between 1 and 4 cards and it's not even that hard to meet those requirements since magician's souls can send any spellcaster to the grave mean you can send mahad or mana then foolish on the other one then Armageddon knight for dark magician girl and since it's a dark magician deck you probably already have him on field but if not he is easily searchable.

[@bensell982]

@@Tomy_Lightning yeah I was just spit balling cards that would be useful to discard. In an actual situation you should discard Eternal Soul or Dark Magic Circle if you already have them face up on the field.

[@Kurumisama]

nothing like imperm Chixiao to bait Baronne and chain droplet to it sending Imperm to negate her

[@randumo24]

It's not going negative though, it's going even either way.

[@tym6217]

Swap Frog deserved a mention of this video. It being able to bounce itself, or another one of your monsters as part of its cost was fantastic. The vast majority of the time you didn't even care about the actual double summon effect, you just wanted to bounce itself so you could reuse its mill effect on summon. It could also be used to bounce monarchs to be able to recycle their tribute effects. Since it bounced as a cost instead of an effect you could even do cheeky stuff like bounce a Light and Darkness Dragon that had used up most of its negates, without it trying to negate your own frog. All of that being tied to its cost rather than an effect made it notoriously difficult to kill a Swap Frog if your opponent wasn't willing to keep it on the field. It could bounce itself and hide in the hand even through things like Effect Veilers and Breakthrough Skills.

[@Salacavalini]

Droplet being able to send cards that don't necessarily have GY effects is also useful in the sense that you can send another spell or trap you've activated earlier in the same chain; the spell or trap still resolves one way or the other (assuming it's not a Continuous one) so sending it as cost is literally free at this point, essentially letting you turn what would normally be a card just coincidentally on the field into a resource.

[@sephikong8323]

I am 90% sure that the majority of the broken droplets application were never even thought off during the design of the card, for them it was just a negate card with a steep cost, turns out, the game mechanics are actually really favorable to tributing your own card (with very little restrictions on which card you can choose) on a quick effect as it has tons of useful applications, so it makes what should have been a strong card balanced by a pretty sharp cost in the designer's mind turned into a complete shitshow worth 200 bucks

[@mrdude88]

The good ole Emergency Provision trick.

[@frostkitsunelive7661]

@@mrdude88 Lmao, they made this mistake once already with Emergency Provisions and Mirage of Nightmare. How could they have made it a second time?

[@mrdude88]

@@frostkitsunelive7661 LOL. One of the best combo back then. Reap all the reward without suffering any drawbacks.

[@williamdrum9899]

​@@frostkitsunelive7661 This is more so activating a Normal Spell as Chain Link 1, opponent tries to use a monster negate to negate it and you use droplet sending the aforementioned normal spell as cost to get it off the field so your opponent's negate fizzles

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

Beneficial costs, the most extreme has to be Ultimate Crystal Magic. You get to mill 7 monsters of your choice, so long as they have different names. Sure you can only choice between the 15 Crystal Beasts, but it's still ridiculous advantage.

[@Greg501-]

There used to be 7, then 8

[@crystal6675]

@@Greg501- then Advanced Crystal Beasts became a thing and they added 7 more, Aka 15

[@joanaguayoplanell4912]

@@crystal6675 yup. It's pretty stupid if you play Tribrigades, since most of them are Beast and Winged Beast type

[@Dragonboy55564]

That card is the only thing making crystal beasts remotely usable nowadays, as someone that loves the archetype.

[@Deathmare235]

@@Dragonboy55564 and their searchers

[@Hugelag]

I have some list suggestions of you don't mind: Top 10 Story cards part 2 Top 10 cards that show actual cards Top 10 cards that aren't in Master Duel Top 10 stall cards. Top 10 generic pendulum cards. Top 10 parody cards. (Like how Weed Out parodies Return from the Different Dimension.) Top 10 special conditions in the games. More Rescue Rabbit, please.

[@legendofdymin]

Maybe a Top 10 Cards that are better in Master Duel

[@juanpellicena]

Top 10 cards that show actual cards god

[@Hugelag]

@@juanpellicena Like card of demise or sacred sword.

[@spiderman110990]

Shadow Mist thrives off of discard costs. I love sending that to the grave with twin twisters or super-poly. The amount of advantage generated is just so satisfying. Also, would love to see a list with the top 10 best/worst cards "you can only control one of", if it hasn't been done already.

[@Cheef.SteveX0]

Discard shadow mist to summon Faris to start up the combo that ends in bane and sunrise is my best turn 1 play in heroes

[@Waldo_I_Am]

The only thing is I feel like that list would almost certainly be topped by a Mayakashi, but maybe I'm wrong.

[@spaceperson741]

When I started playing Master Duel, the first deck I went for was Salamangreats, since it was the first deck I played while getting back into the game. Something that surprised me was how many people didn't know that Spinny's hand effect is practically meaningless, and would waste their negates on it. I would only use its hand effect for the cost, so I could revive it with its second effect. It's something that saved me in a number of games.

[@arrownoir]

You forgot that droplet can also dodge Skill Drain or remove your own skill drain.

[@blitzcam]

Dark matter dragon has the most powerful cost in Yugioh.

[@sephikong8323]

I think it may be in the internal banlist of cards that he doesn't want to talk about anymore as he did it too many times, but still, it's 110% the best "cost" ever printed. And it's crazy to think that an easy to summon OTK machine with good effects is banned almost solely for the cost of it's effect

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

"Droplet can still cost" allows all kinds of busted interactions, even in situations where its own effect should be negated. Card is busted in any deck capable of taking advantage of it. Didn't even mention its ability to nullify an attack during the damage step by sending the card that would have been run over as its cost(even if it was yours because of a surprise attack spike from the opponent). Attack Replays don't happen if a monster is removed during the damage step, and the sudden attack drop can also allow you to beat over the monster if it tried to catch you off guard during your own turn if you have another around to beat over it with. And of course escaping targeted negation effects like Imperm and Veiler is always an option, this kind of interaction is often how people break cards with annoying lingering effects.

[@hyoroemongaming569]

About that replay didnt trigger in dmg step. WCS 2017 is the most famous example of player missed that game mechanic.

[@jeremymore451]

@@hyoroemongaming569 That's TD vs Dino, right?

[@hyoroemongaming569]

@@jeremymore451 yes that one!

[@mrdude88]

Just like World Chalice Clash. When you activate it during the damage step to remove your monster, you basically negate the attacking monster’s attack, and can then lower the attack of another monster.

[@TengoSuenho]

Shot out to Avendread Savior sending any Zombie from Deck to GY as cost and even during the Damage Step, so of you send something like Glow-Up Bloom your opponent cannot Ash that effect either

[@TengoSuenho]

@Cearus C No, Uni-Zombie target for cost (with both effects) and the send is an effect

[@dreadnaught3x390]

Genex Undine, a card that could have made this list, hilariously has an effect that functions as the cost and vice versa because game rules require you to actually be able to resolve an effect in order to activate it and pay its costs

[@BeaglzRok1]

I know they're not costs, but honorable mention to literally every archetype card with the limitation text "you cannot special summon monsters (for the rest of this turn) (from the Extra Deck) except for [type of monster the deck wants to get out anyway using card types that are in the archetype anyway]" You know, just in case you wanted to cross the streams, but now you can run Simorgh/Union Carrier/Mist Valley infinite-negate in Tri-Brigade decks and Cyber Emergency in Drytron. Back in my day, Pot of Duality's anti-special summon restriction was an actual restriction.

[@leogmg]

Yeah, more often than not when I see a restriction like that I can't help it but be slightly annoyed, especially as more often than not the effect is already busted enough.

[@keranendy9713]

I dont really understand the "back in my day" part lol. It was always be like ever since

[@zernek9199]

Literally any Thunder Dragon card since their cost tends to be discarding itself, which means setting up your GY with fusion material. Even better with OCG rules since you can use Dragonhawk to Special Summon from the GY and that means easy summon of Colossus

[@jekrixlokan4507]

Kaleido chick is so good because you can use it when even when its effects are negated, which when summoned by Tiger will already negate its effect anyway. But what's even better is that in Master Duel, people don't read so they will use a resource to negate the effect of my Kaleido Chick, even though it's already been negated and wasn't the effect I was going for.

[@TheLunatrick]

It's always so funny to watch people waist thier negates when I use chick to send Martin to the graveyard for this exact hand loop. I been playing my lunalight deck since MD came out and people still do it!

[@randumo24]

The banish effect to stop your opponent from being able to activate anything during the battle phase is also very relevant as Lunalight Fusion is an OTK machine.

[@williamdrum9899]

Would have been a funny throwback if they called her Lunalight Chick the Yellow

[@matteste]

I would also say Pot of Avarice is a good one as its cost of returning cards to the deck is a huge boon to decks with lots of reliable searchers, especially those that chew through resources quite fast. That card has proven to me to be quite the lifesaver with both Generaider's and Unchained.

[@NormalNeu001]

Pot of avarice's cost ist only targeting 5 Monsters in your GY. That's why you can completely Stop it with D.D. Crow.

[@awildsylveon9896]

My favorite use for droplet is in sky striker. If you have two spells in grave you can activate your 3rd striker spell and chain droplet, sending the spell you just activated. Because it hits the grave before resolving, you can count it towards your 3 spells in grave for your bonus effect on the striker spell.

[@metalmariomega]

Even faster is to just chain 2 Striker spells(as long as at least one of them is a quick play) to Droplet, getting the full effects of both spells and hitting 2 effect monsters with Droplet at the same time. Since Droplet resolves first, your other spells are already in grave thanks to it sending them for cost, and count towards their own condition of 3 spells in grave. You can actually chain any number of cards to Droplet to send them all for cost, as long as there's enough effect monsters to lower the attack of on the opponent's side of the field. Once Linkage comes out you'll be able to do something similar on empty boards to get out a Link monster without sending an extra card to the GY.

[@awildsylveon9896]

@@metalmariomega yep, and bonus points if you bait out your opponents negates during the chain so you don't have to worry about sending a monster to prevent responses This is where strikers skill ceiling is, it's really not a monkeflip deck like people seem to think

[@limestone1709]

One edit about rexterm: it only stops ACTIVATED effects. So monsters’ passive effects can still apply. For example: jet dragon protects your other cards from being destroyed. That still works when Rex is out

[@casuallydone468]

Aloof Lupine getting to banish a Roar or Dark from hand a lot of the time regardless if you negate it or not is really, really good

[@chrayez]

So let me get this right - Konami saw how powerful Mirrorjade’s effect would be, so much so that a once per turn wouldn’t be enough and decided to give it a once-every-other-turn clause instead. And then turned around and made that a SOFT every-other-turn?

[@Slither.Wing.]

They were really tired of people not playing Albaz

[@bismarckimperia8781]

We gotta make that shit sell one way or the other. -Konami.

[@zad_rasera]

The interaction with Ad Libitum is really interesting, though, and it rewards good deckbuilding.

[@Dominator150395]

The best thing about beneficial costs is that costs are paid *before* the next chain link is added, so they can't be negated further down the chain.

[@davidjimenez3822]

a funny part of droplet's cost is that allows you to use face-up spell and trap cards activated on the same chain, so if your opponent activates Baronne or Borreload Savage to negate your, let's say, Lightning Storm, you can use your face-up Lightning Storm to pay the cost of Droplet, and since omni negates usually have OPT or HOPT on their negate effects, it allows you to bypass the need of sending a monster to prevent them from responding to Droplet.

[@dchilo]

I was expecting Magicians' Souls tbh. It has been splashed into many former Meta decks.

[@alonsoarana5307]

"A small price to pay for salvation"

[@gericjohnm.olivar9563]

Cherubini is an annoying card to dealt with if you have no resources to remove it.

[@alexowen5987]

A concept I'd really like to see is an Archetype which uses incredibly beneficial costs and then has downside effects; like, it Special Summons monsters as the cost and then destroys them as the main effect. Just, negating them would make it OP, if they were good enough to even be played... But reminds me of certain Cardfight!! Vanguard units which can call units from the hand as an alternative "discarding" them and would be actually pretty cool in YGO.

[@chrisgiannopoulos4633]

Forbidden droplet is great in the darklord decks as well. The main strategy for the deck is to send monsters to the grave and using the graveyard effect to resummon them to the field.

[@Dtoszi]

Vampires too, all the starters love being in the grave

[@Ragnarok540]

Shout-out to the opponent who once used his effect veiler against my cherubini... That guy REALLY didn't want my cherubini from getting a few more attack points.

[@TheLunatrick]

Got to love the guy who effect veiler my chick man what am I to do now that chick can't change her name to yellow marten

[@Ryan_McEdgelord]

I expected painful choice at 1, but that's probably a hall of fame card so we don't mention it

[@TheMightofDab]

Hard to tell due to it being before PSCT was a thing, but I think the cost of Painful Choice is just selecting the cards and showing them to your opponent.

[@misirtere9836]

No, Painful Choice wasn't even in the running. The "Cost" of a card is a very specific thing in Yugioh, where it has to be something that happens even if the card is negated. Painful Choice doesn't send anything to the graveyard if it's negated, so that's not a cost, which means it doesn't count for this list.

[@mysteriousf7940]

The thing is Painful Choice doesn't send as cost

[@TheArcv2]

Also the send cost of Forbidden droplet can be used to dodge Skill drain or Effect Veiler if getting the activated effect of A monster to resolve is more important than keeping a body on the field because those two cards need the monster be face up on the field when the monster's effect resolves in order to negate it.

[@mazder360]

I love the Plunder Patroll, and their Field's ability to discard any card to search any Plunder Patroll card, activating their discard effects, fills me with joy

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

This is a leftover from the last yu-gi-oh card video, but I was looking for some feedback for a five-headed dragon retrain I had in mind. I went over to a video that explains pendulum monsters for idiots for good measure to help proofread it too: _Seven-Headed Pendulum Dragon_ (DARK) Level 12 Pendulum effect: _Once per turn (quick effect), you may banish any number of Dragon or Wyrm monsters with different attributes from your hand or field to your GY; activate the following effect(s) depending on the attribute(s) of the monster banished (You may only use each of these effects once per turn, and you cannot attack this turn):_ ⚫️: FIRE Destroy 1 card on the field⚫️: WATER Gain 3000 LP⚫️: WIND shuffle 1 card in either players hand into their deck⚫️ EARTH: Target 1 facedown card on the field; It cannot be destroyed by battle or card effect until the end of this turn⚫️ DARK: Negate the effects of 1 card on the field until the end of this turn⚫️ LIGHT: 1 card on the field gains original ATK and DEF equal to the ATK or DEF of the monster banished (your choice) ⚫️ DIVINE: Flip all other cards on the field facedown, and immediately afterwards special summon 1 Divine-Beast monster from your hand, deck or GY, ignoring its summoning conditions. _If you banish 5 or more cards by this effect, you can special summon this card from your pendulum zone, ignoring this cards summoning conditions._ Pendulum Scale: *0* [Dragon/Pendulum/Fusion/Effect] 5+ Dragon or Wyrm Monsters _Must either be fusion summoned with the above cards or pendulum summoned. Once per turn, you may place this card in your pendulum zone. This card cannot be destroyed by card effects, and cannot be destroyed by battle except by LIGHT monsters. Once per turn (quick effect), you can change the type and attribute of 1 monster on the field. Once per turn (quick effect), you may banish 3 cards from your extra deck with the same type and attribute; Place any number of pendulum monsters from your extra deck into your pendulum zone(s) (destroy any cards already in your pendulum zones). This card cannot attack the turn you use this effect._

[@phamquang7885]

There are a lot of things I can say about this card, but the strangest thing in my mind is the fact that it mentioned both Dragon and Wyrm monsters.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

@@phamquang7885 Well Wyrm monsters are basically dragons anyway, just treated as a different type to not over saturate the Dragon type itself. I had also considered adding fiends, fariys, reptiles, dinosaurs, winged beats…. Basically anything IRL that myths and legends and religions had ever connected to dragons. I want to to take a look at True King of All Calamities and tell me it isn’t a dragon from the card art.

[@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire]

Sea serpents and even fish too. Like how in Japanese legends Carp are said to become dragons by climbing up a waterfall.

[@phamquang7885]

@@ButFirstHeLitItOnFire okay, maybe just Dragon and Wyrm is enough.

[@invencible373875559]

i think in this part of ''Once per turn (quick effect), you may banish any number of Dragon or Wyrm monsters with different attributes from your hand or field to your GY'' you mean banish a dragon or wyrm from the hand, field or graveyard but otherwise is good, the water effect is kinda pointless, lp don't matters that much nowadays, maybe change to return 1 card to either player hand and the pendulum effect should allow pendulum monsters to be summon on ANY monster zone at the cost of negatting their effect, pendulum suffer a lot from master rule 4 and 5 and the revisions, that should be more helpful, just a quick observation hope is useful

[@vellycanelly7429]

Gren Maju having an effect supported by paying a hefty Desires cost (and other cards too) just further proves that it should get a summoning animation in MD.

[@doctorockzo]

A lot of older cards' costs became benefits as the amount graveyard support increased to the point where it's now just an extension of your hand

[@cupcake5478]

I was expecting kaijus or sphere mode to make it here, because the cost to tribute your opponent's monsters is the biggest reason they're played.

[@Robodragonlord]

I think an honorable mention should be for Eldlich the Golden Lord. Within his archetype, you can get the other Golden Lands or Eldlixir spells and traps from your deck while also being able to either bring out a monster with a boosted attack or send a card on the field the the GY.

[@Joever5634]

Dogmatika punishment/nadir servant milling anything from extra is really useful, as some prime choices include ntss for pop, titaniklad to get either ecclesia to search or add fleur if ecclesia was already used for a negate, or el shadoll apkallone to get schism for the summon lock

[@andrejv.2834]

Their mills aren't costs

[@RapDog62]

Those cards don't mill as a cost

[@joshdavis6830]

You missed a couple important things with Forbidden Droplet - in Evil/Live Twins, sending monsters from the FIELD to the GY is important in order to activate on-field effects, and more archetypes may emerge where this is the case (this is why Evil Twin sides Enemy Controller as well). The card can also be used to play around Imperm, Effect Veiler, Chixiao, etc, by sending your monster to the GY so that there is no target on the field. In Evil Twin this is even bigger, since clearing the field of a Live Twin lets you summon the other Twin name and use it's effect to summon Treat/Frost to start your plays. I don't love the card in most other shells, but it is insane in that deck.

[@bbdman11]

"To beat over most boss monsters in the game" -Proceeds to show Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth 10/10

[@jis11]

27:57 Phantom Knights can also run leviair, so they can recycle water enchantress as well to get another search if needed.

[@saeyal]

Probably doesn't deserve a spot on the top 10 because its facilitated by a field spell but... Lilith, Lady of Lament quick effect tribute is really good (The virus traps also, but Lilith can target anything regardless of stats) I play it a lot in master duel and a good amount of wins come from the fact that Lilith's tribute is done as a cost and cannot be negated.

[@nacl4988]

Kaliedo Chick makes me feel strange. It has 3 effects, None of which are useful. But its best part, Is the COST of *ONE* of its effects. It could have that only, and would be almost as good

[@TheLunatrick]

Actually it's name effect has been useful now and then but with my lunalight OTK deck stopping all your opponent card effect in the battle phase make is for sure you will otk your opponent and there is nothing they can pull out of thier sleeve becuse they can't activate anything

[@nacl4988]

@@TheLunatrick That only applies if you want to Fusion summon with Lunalights. Lunalights tend to do best with an XYZ deck. just Chick + Tiger can end on 3Mat Appolusa + 2 CyberDragon Infinities (Not HOPT)

[@maunabesanika]

people may dont know about this since almost nobody play pure gizmek, but gizmek naganaki and makami has really good interactions with pot of desire for naganaki, you can banish it from graveyard to add 1 of your banished face-down machine monster with atk equal to its def (which all gizmek are), so in this case pot of desire kinda act as a searcher too. for makami, if you have 6 or more card banished, you can normal summon this card without tribute, and then discard 1 card to search any gizmek, if makami is destroyed you can also return 6 banished card to deck

[@SystemYTP]

Sometimes I wonder what the game would look like if a deck had to have exactly 60 cards, just like Pokemon. What would be a consequence of (most) decks being less consistent?

[@acerimmer563]

That is interesting one ofs would be so inconsistent unless they are searchable and cards like grass looks greener would be useless, I think most decks would be a lot slower except swordsoul and branded

[@TimothyGod]

@@acerimmer563 I mean grass would be useless, as 60 card decks being the only thing allowed, means your turn 1 play won't ha e any use for it, or you don't get enough

[@gunstru]

I don’t think they’d be much less inconsistent, it would be “here your main 40 deck cards, and hers your 20 extra to run engine with to cycle the deck”

[@dudono1744]

doesn't sunavalon run 60 card deck ?

[@Y0G0FU]

You would essentially use the 20 cards to cram as many engines as possible in your deck to cycle through it. Would only server to make turn 1 and 2 last even longer

[@AntoMelon]

Glad to see my favorite little Kaleido Chick get some light 😁 I've played the deck for years, and it still being able to activate even when negated by tiger or bird is the best thing, as well as an opponent trying to veiler/imperm it. And that third effet is just icing on the cake, especially when paired with Tri-Brigade 👌 stopping my rant here, but boy do I like Lunalight combo decks 😁

[@nacl4988]

Lunalight Chick + Lunalight Tiger, Is a crazy combo. VFD + CyberDragon infinity. Kali Yuga + CyberDragon infinity. Mist Valley negate Loop + CyberDragon infinity. (Cyber infinity just kinda comes free with it)

[@YukiFubuki.]

I ran a Lunalight danger combo deck for the 1 limit fest in MD, it’s capable of doing some crazy things

[@AntoMelon]

@@nacl4988 yeah it just can do so many different boards! I play it in the TCG coupled with Tri-Brigade, and if you have a good hand and are uninterrupted you can end up on stuff like Apollousa for 3 + UDF + DDL + Infinity, or depending on the version you could replace UDF with Knightmare Gryphon + Revolt, or go for a Masquerena play! It's definitely not the most consistent deck, but it is a lot of fun to experiment with 😁 And the fact that Kaleido Chick and Tiger both don't know what HOPT are makes it funny to explain to your opponent 😇

[@nacl4988]

@@AntoMelon Whats UDF and DLL? Never heard of em

[@AntoMelon]

@@nacl4988 they are: - Number F0 Utopic Draco Future, which you rank up on the small F0, which itself requires 2 Xyz Monsters with the same rank as material. It provides a Monster negate + a steal if negated on the field, as well as its protection from battle and card effect to have it stay around - Ancient Warriors - Double Dragon Lords, which is a link 2 you can cheat out using main deck Tri-Brigades. It can send a card from your hand or field to the GY to bounce an opponent's face-up cards These are powerful options I added in my build, and I think they work pretty well 😁 Hope that clarified it 😉

[@Dionysus24779]

Based on Number 3 I would really like videos explaining how certain archetypes work and what kind of cool plays they can make.

[@roberttoader464]

I feel like the dragon rulers can all be limited and it would be fine. I don't think they are that broken anymore

[@namegeneric9344]

Considering that your opponent can set up like 20 negates, yeah dragon rulers aren't that big of a deal anymore

[@andrejv.2834]

@@namegeneric9344 what deck can do that lmao

[@TheMightofDab]

@@namegeneric9344 Lmao OK Yugiboomer

[@phamquang7885]

In which deck would the Dragon Rulers be used these days?

[@andrejv.2834]

@@phamquang7885 without any testing the only one we can confidently guess is dragon link Outside of pure but you'd need them at 3 for that

[@ashe4054]

Top 10 Boss Monsters that are only strong or broken within their own archetype

[@Aezthet1C]

Lyrilusc fusion monster maybe

[@The_Vanni]

Literally every non generic one, except a few exceptions like Colossus.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Also, RIP Kazuki Takahashi.

[@beartoothWC]

"Being able to beat over most boss monsters in the game" then showing Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, the end all be all boss monster. Well done!

[@SmugLookingBarrel]

I feel like one card you missed is Lava Golem (and cards like it, like Sphere Mode), who's played entirely because of its cost, which you can pay in your opponent's monsters. The effect of the card is really bad, but the cost is really good.

[@DanielHoje]

Some quick maths gives that gren majus theoretical max atk and def if 59600 if both players run a 60 card deck and a 15 card extra deck and somehow managed to get every card except gren maju himself banished. Edit: gren maju only counts the controllers cards so the theoretical max is only 29 600.

[@valonyaver600]

Gren maju only counts its controller's banished cards not the opponent

[@DanielHoje]

@@valonyaver600 i did not know that. That means gren majus theoretical max atk and def is 29 600 with a 60 card deck and 15 card extra deck

[@Pav298]

Was expecting neptabyss. Helped put mermail on the map around 2017. The deck focused on discarding for cost to trigger effects of the discarded card.

[@Havrrics]

As a loyal Burning Abyss player I was somewhat expecting Dante on this list but was more than happy to see Cherubini not only here, but at the number one spot.

[@user-ox7yi1it9u]

Honorable mention to bardiche which was banned for having a +2 with half it being for the beneficial cost

[@SilverDungeoneer]

I always combine Ritual Art - Greed with Sangan. Even if they reveal the spell, sangan's effect will still get activated, unless they have that one spell on hand.

[@TheLunatrick]

Finally a video with lunalight cards! My favorite deck to run in masterduel oh and chick is broken af lol

[@daneyal7162]

Hold a friggin moment...Mirrorjade is an ACTUAL card!?!?!? I thought that it was just a fanart project when I first saw it some time ago! Dang, this friggin AWESOME!!!! 😀

[@timaeusdelpueblosecretodel6801]

**The editor sending subtle clues for us to play super cuantal**

[@lor84881]

Animadorned Archosaur definitely has a beneficial effect as it allows you to pop either babycerasaurus or petiteranodon, pretty much starting your combos while also giving you a free UCT in the form of double evo pill

[@Lucarivyle]

Even better at Droplet: You can send cards from your field to prevent your opponent from interacting with them with Imperm and other targetting cards and additionally you can use it with Spells/Traps you just activated to decrease the cost too. And the negate is non-target either!

[@quasimodular4989]

no genex undyne?

[@terry4751]

You mean the one that summons a fusion from extra deck?

[@pietroprovenzano1836]

@@terry4751 undyne Is a Monster that as a cost that mill a water moster to the grave

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@terry4751 It mills a WATER to search for Genex Controller.

[@terry4751]

@@sekaihunter9378 then why should it make this list what is the cost then?

[@sekaihunter9378]

@@terry4751 The mill is the cost, but the search is just a normal monster.

[@theangelbelow88]

With Forbidden Droplet you can also chain it to a one of your card that is going to be sent to the graveyard anyways and use it as the cost.

[@XNeswii]

It’s not in the TCG yet, but Artemate Slay extra foolishes as a cost for an unrespondable bounce

[@zad_rasera]

It saw play _against_ Splights in the OCG

[@TheItalianoAssassino]

I remember my friend summoning Cherubini in Burning Abyss for the first time. I read the card and went "wtf that's broken" Glad that I'm not mistaken in my judgment.

[@W1seard]

Predaplanning can also fit in this list, it's a Normal Trap with cost of sending 1 Predaplant from the deck to the GY in order to put a Predator Counter on every face up monster on the field, so you can send Predaplant Byblisp as the cost of Predaplanning and then you can trigger Byblisp's effect to add another Predaplant to your hand, also Byblisp can be special summoned during your next turn from the GY so you can use it as material for some link or fusion plays, also you can send Predaplant Drosophilum Hydra, which is a Kaju-like monster that tributes an opponent monster with Predator Counter in order to special summon itself to your own field from your hand or GY... or even you can dump Byblisp and add Hydra :v

[@leehuntingdon3348]

Droplet should be at number 1 Just because its a quick play spell Activate a trap, chain e teleport, quick effect of a monster , chain droplets sending everything else in the chain to the grave to negate opponents cards The chain resolves + you lose absolutely nothing all effects activate as normal Never ever should be at number 9

[@dwinandapramudya]

You can also do this with Evenly Match, essentially banishing your opponent's board leaving them with only one card (providing that you sent the correct type of card so your opponent can't respond to droplet), very powerful as going 2nd

[@ytmndman]

"While initially the cost of a card like Onuncu may appear somewhat costly at first" is a hilariously redundant sentence fragment.

[@justinionthegreat]

As a Mermail player, I must mention Neptabyss. +2 with other Atlanteans.

[@mierdobladexpunkd]

You should make a video about cars that force your opponent to do something. Like tribute monsters, send cards to the graveyard, etc

[@Omegallednar]

This such a great channel i've obtained so much knowledge of the game through those videos! continue the amazing work !

[@adamtomlinson918]

I wonder about cards of consonance. The discard cost is rarely bad as so many decks want their low level dragons in the graveyard, including blue eyes, dragunity, even chaos dragons

[@Vam246]

Top 10 Fusion monsters with named materials (Fusion Deployment Targets). I know that Fusion Deployment is not necessarily a meta card but it seems really useful in gimmick decks such as your gamble deck using Time Wizard of Tomorrow or using Neos Kruger to bring out either Neos or Yubel for a deck centered on Wiseman or just a Yubel Deck

[@otterfire4712]

Wild Fire, a quick play spell that sends a Blaze Accelerator and 500 LP for cost to Dark Hole the field and leave a 1000 AtK/Def Fire/Pyro token. While not immediately apparent, this sets up your grave for Blaze Accelerator Reload's Grave effect, in the event you didn't have Volcanic Scattershot in hand, to banish Reload to send a Volcanic from Deck to grave during either players main phase. Meaning you have access to two board wipes on the opponent's turn. Unfortunately, Volcanics and Pyros don't have enough support to improve their consistency so it's stuck relying on generic Pot staples for consistency and its still vulnerable to hand traps like Ash and floodgates like Macro Cosmos or Necrovalley.

[@friesen_m]

Speaking of Onuncu, you can look up how Rikkas interact with Rikka Arrival(which is an archtypal Lair of Darkness) and Rikka Snow Princess. It's a GY/Handtrap to deck and tribute a Plant monster as a cost to negate a monster effect.

[@AJRujaib]

Was playing MasterDuel while watching this video. The exact thing mentioned regarding using Mirrorjade happened against me in the duel lol

[@Pepe__7]

Thank you Mr Logs for teaching me branded despia plays.

[@martynkalendar]

I have an idea for a video just like this one. I'm thinking "Top 10 Cards With Beneficial Costs in Yugioh". Basically the idea is in Yugioh a cost is an activation requirement that you must fulfill in order to use certain cards or effects - These costs can manifest in a myriad of different ways; Including, but not limited to: Losing life points, discarding cards, or banishing cards. Usually, this is done with the express intent of balancing powerful card effects by associating them with some kind of cost which may make them unappealing for some strategies, but there are some instances in which these costs can be manipulated to be a benefit, and there are even some costs which are actually better than the effect they’re meant to accompany. This video is going to focus on the top ten most beneficial costs in the game, why they’re so advantageous, and how some negative aspects of cards can be twisted into positives with some creative deck building choices. In YGO, a cost is suppose to be a requirement to fulfill in order to use effects, which is suppose to offset its powerful effect. However, sometimes that cost is also a beneficial effect, so in this list you'll be going over cards that cheat by having good costs.

[@Novoxis]

Would like to see a list of cards that support an archetype while also being generic; eg. Best Generic Spellcaster Support, Best Generic Warrior Support etc.

[@FyerWerksFly]

Genex undine and swap frog are two older cards played exclusively because of their costs

[@zenbozic6184]

on droplets you missed the fact that you can use it as response to getting your face up monsters effect negated via something like imperm and by sending it to gy you can have it still resolve its effect

[@alialluaibi3008]

Please do Top 10 fusion monsters that can only be brought out by polymerization

[@dosbilliam]

Gonna say with how prevalent banishing your own cards for their effects is nowadays, I'm kind of surprised Miracle Dig doesn't see play.

[@Senpapaya]

also worth mentioning about forbidden droplet is the way to dodge targeting effects like negates

[@ND-er1bo]

Shoutout to Cards of Consonance and Trade In as an Edison Dragon turbo enjoyer. Their costs are beneficial because of White Stone of Legend and Super Rejuvenation.

[@StereoxAS]

Droplet can basically be activated for free in certain deck like Sky Striker, by simply setting your spell cards. Activating them, then chain droplet

[@dunslax3]

I'd give an honorable mention to Neptabyss, which has a free foolish burial as cost.

[@Magevast9]

Ah yes gren maju, one of the few modern day cards that make it really scary to attack a face down monster

[@csolisr]

Today I learned that the Adventure engine benefits from Cherubini, I'll be sure to craft one on my next Master Duel deck.

[@agustinmonardes8160]

Are you telling me that Gren Maju can beat over Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth? No way

[@Wortigon2000]

all these cards, and all I could think about was that 1 cards of consonance in my good old trusty blue-eyes deck.Sage searches white stone, cards of consolance sends white stone to the grave to draw 2 cards, due to white stone, I can search 1 blue-eyes as a bonus. Or, you know, Kaijus. Literally any Kaiju. Their entire reason for being played is their cost.

[@charlitosvanced5975]

Ten best cards to consider when building an elemental hero deck. It could be done with any archetype, it would be a nice way to learn new archetypes.

[@Pr1est0fDoom]

I guess Dark Matter Dragon is not on the list because it's in the Hall of Fame for appearing on too many videos. Otherwise it would be number 1, easily.

[@newelljoseph5060]

As part of the old school generation, cost cards are something I'm heavily accustom to avoid playing given that deck and life point resources were something to hold onto instead of burning

[@bluekirby_64]

Same here